Inert

If you’re for Reform Party backing,

Neglect no response to their tracking:

Exemption from firing

Respects no expiring—

The wholly inert are for sacking!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His acrostic sonnets have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Better Than Starbucks, The Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, MONO., the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, the Satirist, the Washington Post and WestWard Quarterly. The poem was prompted by the Independent story, “Reform apologises after sacking ‘inactive’ candidate who turned out to be dead.”